Diana Vineyard was originally planted in 2001 with 3,250 Pinot Noir vines, clone 777 on SO4. This vineyard has quite a dramatic slope on the west end of the field and a stream on its southern border.

Initially we believed that this combination would offer at least some moderate frost protection in the spring as the rapidly flowing Slab Creek would act to draw the cold air off the slopes and pull it downstream. This theory was only partially effective and the Diana Vineyard was one of the most severely damaged in May of 2005 when Prince Edward County experienced a late spring frost.

An inversion fan was installed in April of 2006, in time to offer protection to the emerging buds of that vintage.

We finished planting Diana with 3,750 vines of Pinot Noir also clone 777 in 2002. It is slated as one of our premium production sites, with crop limited to between 1.5 and 1.8 tonnes to the acre, depending on the vintage. This will result in an average crop of about 9.5 tonnes which will ultimately produce about 500 cases of premium Pinot Noir under the Grange of Prince Edward label.